Cost of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna vaccine to EU revealed by MP - Business Insider

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A politician tweeted a list showing how much the EU has agreed to pay for the leading vaccines, confirming rumors of Moderna's sky-high price

De Bleeker tweeted the list amid a dispute with a right-leaning opposition party, who claimed the government hadn't set aside sufficient funds to buy enough vaccines,Belgium is purchasing 33.5 million vaccines at a cost of 279 million euros, the screenshot shared by De Bleeker shows.

"We wanted to offer full transparency, but we have been a bit too generous," a spokesperson for De Bleeker told The Times. "Technically, those prices should not have been released, so we removed the tweet."Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On Friday, a spokesman for the European Commission said: "We can't say anything about this case, everything about vaccines and prices are covered by confidentiality clauses, in the interests of society and also in the interests of negotiations ongoing,"The prices of the vaccines to the EU revealed by De Bleeker will differ from the cost paid by the likes of the US and Canada.

In some cases, the European price may be a reflection of how much funding the companies received from EU authorities. For example, the EU appears to be paying 24% less for shots of the Pfizer vaccine compared with the US, the Guardian reported, citing analysis from Bernstein Research. The EU

 

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